Plenary Speaker

Abstract: Advanced materials and structures are the material basis and technological forerunners for the development of fields such as aerospace, transportation, and wind turbine blades. In complex service environments, loads such as explosion shock have characteristics such as time instability, high strain rate, and strong discontinuity. Composite materials and structures integrate mesoscopic phenomena such as deformation, damage and failure of heterogeneous materials like metal dislocations, polymer chain movements and fiber slip/fracture, demonstrating remarkable cross-scale interdisciplinary characteristics. The presenter have achieved several progress in the dynamic mechanical behavior of composite materials and structures. The presentation will focus on three aspects: the prediction of buckling failure and the design of strengthening and toughening of curved thin-walled structures, the cross-scale construction of flat composite laminates and the constitutive model of composite materials, and the microscopic mechanism of nanoscale surface and interface forces and high-speed collision/penetration.

Biography: Sun Weifu, Young Chair Professor at Southeast University, has published over 120 SCI papers. Among them, as the first or corresponding author he has published 94 articles in international journals including in Compos.Part A/B, Compos. Sci. Technol., Adv. Func. Mater. (61 articles as the first or corresponding author in the past five years). The presenter has applied for one US invention patent and 15 Chinese patents as the first author, among which five invention patents have been authorized, and has participated in the compilation of one national standard. The research achievements have been widely cited by renowned scholars from over 30 countries (including more than 30 academicians from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and Australia, as well as over 10 presidents/fellows of international academic societies and chief editors of journals), with a total of 1,533 non-self citations He has been included in the list of the top 2% of global scientists in 2024. He has presided over more than 10 scientific research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program and general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has successively received honors such as the National High-level Young Talent Award, the Outstanding Young Scholar Award of the International Conference on Computing and Experimental Science and Engineering, and the National Outstanding Young Scholar Award in Explosion Mechanics.